When I make the first cup of tea of the day at around 6am we have arrived at the time of year when I don’t have to turn a light on in the kitchen to accomplish this task. Indeed, if I step outside the back door while the kettle is boiling, or pause on the front doorstep as I pick up the delivered milk bottles, then the dawn chorus feels as though it is waning not waxing. Having a listen while it is still dark is not usually a problem for me and right now it is a Blackbird chorus of great beauty and Adlestropian proportions. I do idly try to imagine how many Blackbirds I can hear singing from my house but I don’t get much further than ‘lots’. If only they would sing one at a time I could count them. But they don’t and so the thing is to enjoy them.
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We seem especially blessed this year, neighbours have also remarked on it.
I think we had seven on Garden Birdwatch, and can frequently see five cock birds out the back and on the allotments with a lot of squabbling. One hen is now sitting in a log store, i am pretty certain it is at least her third season.
Possibly the place i have seen most Blackbirds, at least in recent years, is Castleford, West Yorkshire.
The grass around the Smawthorne council flats seems especially attractive to them , adjoining as it does the brilliant little marsh of that name, although i am unsure if they can be heard from the station platform.
In search of “Adlestropian”.
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tuwit – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53744/adlestrop
Now I’m not usually up quite as early as Mark and it has to be coffee not tea, but each to his own. Our dawn chorus is still mainly lead by song and Mistle Thrush rather than Blackies. There are a few singing but not many here in our bit of mid Wales yet. Whilst I like the song of the Blackbird I must say that for me song thrush is the better of the two. Now where’s that coffee?